CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (TV Series) Scuba Doobie-Doo (2001) User Reviews

CSI:Crime Scene Investigation-Scuba Doobie-Doo

[Scarecrow-88 · 8/10 · 5 December 2010]

Blood spatter in a high velocity, small spray on the walls of an apartment is the focus of Grissom, Sara & Warrick as luminol uncovers that the murder weapon could be an electrical saw. What they find out through the previous occupant was he actually blew blood from his nose onto the walls as a means to protest! He had Hepititas C and knew how to use his condition to get revenge for his landlord's refusal(by ignoring his pleas for repairs and such)to fix the water among other things. A beetle, mass of flies scattering about, and the DNA of an unidentified woman not associated with the former apartment owner could have Grissom, Sara & Warrick breaking down walls, perhaps even suspecting someone else entirely.

A scuba diver is found in a tree(!) after a wild fire ravaged a certain wilderness on the outskirts of Las Vegas, with Nick and Catherine to determine how the hell he got up there. Nick finds a match box and cigarette near the tree where the body is located possibly explaining what started the fire in the first place. Wood chips not associated with any of the trees in the forest where he was found could lead to a possible suspect, a business partner and friend. Its also discovered that the victim was an environmentalist, a "tree hugger", and that he didn't want to damage land needed for the business venture. He had actually suffered a heart attack, caused by a blow to the chest. Compressed air in a scuba tank could very well actually implicate the victim's killer!

The Super and the Diver

[claudio_carvalho · 8/10 · 7 October 2022]

When the super Stu Evans brings two possible tenants to the apartment that was rented to Cliff Renteria and his girlfriend, he finds the walls covered in blood. Grissom, Warrick and Sara investigate the case and learn that Cliff left the apartment in the dawn and his girlfriend is missing. Cliff explains that the blood is from his nosebleed and he was revenging his landlord for the lack of services in his apartment. Meanwhile, Catherine and Nick investigate the mysterious case of a scuba diver found dead on the top of a burned tree by the firemen that were extinguishing the fire in the woods.

"Scuba Doobie-Doo" is another great episode of "CSI", with two storylines. The case of the blood in the apartment has many twists and is certainly the best one. The scuba-diver segment as entertainment is good. But technically speaking, I believe the 3,000 psi cylinder would have exploded with the fire surrounding with consequent raise of the temperature. My vote is eight.

Title (Brazil): "Scuba Doobie-Doo"

Home Improvement

[Hitchcoc · 8/10 · 5 January 2021]

A couple of puzzles as usual. One involves an apartment where blood spatter is found all over the walls. How it got there is pretty interesting. But there is something else as Grissom follows the bugs. The other strange case has to do with a scuba diver found in a tree after a wildfire. Sometimes the stories get sort of beyond the pale, but they are always pretty entertaining.

Behind the Walls.

[rmax304823 · 6/10 · 5 January 2012]

Two separate cases. In one, a body dressed in a SCUBA suit is found perched in the branches of a burned tree after a forest fire. In the other, the CSI team investigate an apartment whose walls are splattered with blood that turns out to belong to a red herring.

The setting is Las Vegas but it's hard to know why. Little use is made of the location. As usual, William Peterson and Marg Helgenberger turn in professional jobs as members of the team. Some of the others lack anything resembling magnetism, and some show no evidence of talent.

And the lighting -- again, as usual -- is dramatic and rather dark but false to the locations. It's hard to imagine the office of any bureaucracy that isn't lighted flatly, like Jack Webb's "Dragnet." Not that it has to be DULL. The offices of The Washington Post were hardly uninteresting in "All The President's Men." And why is the laboratory of a Crime Scene Unit so full of shadows? Why is everyone in an apartment back lighted or lighted from the side?

That stuff is an irritation but the stories are filled with interest and suspense, if at time they turn a little disgusting. The results are never expressed in probabilities. They're either "matches" or they "don't match." I understand that in some cases juries have been contaminated by expectations generated by Crime Scene Unit. Lawyers have come to call it "the CSI effect." They don't want probabilities (which is all that science has to offer). They want certainties. They want perfection, not compromise. It may be that CSI is also affecting our politics. Who knows?